Center Broadsides 2008 Reading Series / The Center for Book Arts

Identifier:FA.OSB6.0826

Dimensions:[overall] 38.4 x 33 cm

Creation dates:2008

designed by: Amber McMillan Braverman, Champe Smith, Jeremy James Thompson, Corinna Zeltsman, Barbara Henry, Delphi Basilicato, Andre Lee, Taelor Reid, Ana Paula Cordeiro

printed by: L. Valentin, Nancy Loeber

text by: Elena Georgiou, Stacy Szymaszek, Charles Bernstein, Kathy Fagan, Nick Flynn, Jason Labbe, Edward Hirsch, Christina Davis, Evie Shockley, Ada Limón, Erica Hunt, Aracelis Girmay

Subjects: letterpress printing, poetry, portfolios

Description:CBA copy 1; paper printed with lime green overlapping rectangle design on a gatefold portfolio; front flaps open to form a box shape made from hunter green book cloth faced with white paper, lime green grosgrain ribbon loop closure; contains 12 letterpress printed poetry broadsides, each an edition of 100, signed by the poets; various dimensions. Broadsides feature collaborations between poets and artists for the 2008 Center for Book Arts Reading Series. Poets and artists include "They Tell Me You are Gone," Aracelis Girmay / Nancy Loeber; "Assisted Running," Erica Hunt / Ana Cordeiro; "Drowning in Paradise," Ada Limón / Taelor Reid; "My Life As China," Evie Shockley / L. Valentin; "Instead of a Headstone," Christina Davis / Sarah Nicholls; "Cotton Candy," Edward Hirsch / Andre Lee [poem appears in the book Special Orders, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008]; "Traveling Light," Jason Labbe / Delphi Basilicato; "Imagination," Nick Flynn / Barbara Henry; "Ontology and the Platypus," Kathy Fagan / Corinna Zeltsman; "Every True Religion is Bound to Fail," Charles Bernstein / Jeremy James Thompson; from "Hyperglossia," Stacy Szymaszek / Champe Smith; "Under a Public Skin," Elena Georgiou / Amber McMillan.